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Tom Cotton

Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Tom Cotton is subject to counter-sanctions. Counter-sanctions are designations imposed by countries with weak democratic institutions. They are often punitive responses to foreign sanctions, or can be used to suppress domestic political opposition. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Tom Cotton · Toms Kotons · Τομ Κότον · Том Коттон · טום קוטון · 6 more...				[sources]
Other name	Cotton, Tom · Thomas B. Cotton · Thomas Bryant "Tom" Cotton · Thomas Bryant Cotton · Thomas Cotton · 12 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	汤姆·布赖恩特·科顿				[sources]
Birth date	1977-05-13				[sources]
Place of birth	Dardanelle				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States of America				[sources]
Country	United States of America				[sources]
Citizenship	United States of America				[sources]
First name	Bryant · Thomas · Tom				[sources]
Last name	Cotton				[sources]
Phone	+12022242353				[sources]
Title	Mr.				[sources]
Website	cotton.house.gov · facebook.com · twitter.com · twitter.com · www.cotton.senate.gov				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q3090307				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2013-2015) · Senate (member, 2015-2017) · Senate (member, 2017-2019) · Senate (member, 2019-) · United States senator (2015-2017) · 6 more...				[sources]
Education	Claremont Graduate University (1998-1999) · Dardanelle High School (-1995) · Harvard College (-1998) · Harvard Law School (-2002)				[sources]
Religion	Methodism				[sources]
Last change	2025-04-03	Last processed	2025-06-11	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

US Senator

— China Sanctions Research non-official source, 2024-05-22

American politician and army officer (born 1977)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
-	Ministry of Foreign Affairs		2020-08-10	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States senator	2019	2021
United States senator	2019-01-03	2021-01-03
United States senator	2025	-
United States senator	2021-01-03	2023-01-03
United States senator	2017-01-03	2019-01-03
member of the United States House of Representatives	2013-01-06	2015-01-03
United States senator	2023	2025
United States senator	2021	2023
United States senator	2015-01-06	2017-01-03
United States senator	2023-01-03	2025-01-03

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Data sources

Every Politician58,493

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons280,457

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Wikidata · non-official source

China Sanctions Research206

Individuals and organisations targeted by the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, Counter-Measures List and the Unreliable Entities List (UEL).

OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories372,803

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Wikidata · non-official source

US Members of the Congress1,256

Current and recent members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives

United States of America · Congress

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Wikidata349,699

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External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-be5e7cf4-4106-4057-9a1f-f0bfd58318ca · evpo-d7bfdfde-86cd-4da5-99d5-5c560561d7cc · us-congress-f79a5cccee2779a7c87038778f90574ac69b4700

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